Chapter 3
Metal and Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
for Wastewater Decontamination
Mohd. Tauqeer, Mohammad Ehtisham Khan, Radhe Shyam Ji,
Prafful Bansal, and Akbar Mohammad
Abstract There is an unremarkable development in human life by industrialization
and modernization which consequences the harmful contamination in the fresh
water. This contamination is rapidly growing by the use of a variety of organic
dyes, inorganic and other harmful pollutants like chemicals, pesticides, soil erosion,
etc. which causes the quality of fresh and clean water continuously degraded. To get
an access of clean water removal of contaminants is a major challenge for the water
industries. It is a high demand to develop useful material in water treatment with
high separation capacity, low-priced, porosity, and recyclability. Adsorption, coagulation, oxidative-reductive degradation and membrane separation, etc. have been
developed for water/waste water treatment. Adsorption is found to be one of the
most widely used method in water treatment. Variety of different adsorbents and
their hybrids are used for the removal of pollutants from water. Recently, investigation on remediation of water involves the use of nanomaterials with high purifying
capability. Metal and metal oxide nanomaterials are one of the important and
excellent reagents for the decontamination of water/waste water treatment. The
present chapter is a compilation of various adsorbents based on metal and metal
oxide nanomaterials for decontamination of water/waste water available till date.
Keywords Metal-metal oxide nanomaterials · Pollutants · Waste-water
decontamination
M. Tauqeer (*) · P. Bansal
Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
e-mail: mohdtauqeer.ch@amu.ac.in
M. E. Khan
Department of Chemical Engineering Technology, College of Applied Industrial Technology
(CAIT), Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
R. S. Ji
Discipline of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
A. Mohammad
School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongbuk, South
Korea
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
S. Rajendran et al. (eds.), Metal, Metal-Oxides and Metal-Organic Frameworks for
Environmental Remediation, Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World 64,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68976-6_3
63
Metal and Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
for Wastewater Decontamination
Mohd. Tauqeer, Mohammad Ehtisham Khan, Radhe Shyam Ji,
Prafful Bansal, and Akbar Mohammad
Abstract There is an unremarkable development in human life by industrialization
and modernization which consequences the harmful contamination in the fresh
water. This contamination is rapidly growing by the use of a variety of organic
dyes, inorganic and other harmful pollutants like chemicals, pesticides, soil erosion,
etc. which causes the quality of fresh and clean water continuously degraded. To get
an access of clean water removal of contaminants is a major challenge for the water
industries. It is a high demand to develop useful material in water treatment with
high separation capacity, low-priced, porosity, and recyclability. Adsorption, coagulation, oxidative-reductive degradation and membrane separation, etc. have been
developed for water/waste water treatment. Adsorption is found to be one of the
most widely used method in water treatment. Variety of different adsorbents and
their hybrids are used for the removal of pollutants from water. Recently, investigation on remediation of water involves the use of nanomaterials with high purifying
capability. Metal and metal oxide nanomaterials are one of the important and
excellent reagents for the decontamination of water/waste water treatment. The
present chapter is a compilation of various adsorbents based on metal and metal
oxide nanomaterials for decontamination of water/waste water available till date.
Keywords Metal-metal oxide nanomaterials · Pollutants · Waste-water
decontamination
M. Tauqeer (*) · P. Bansal
Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
e-mail: mohdtauqeer.ch@amu.ac.in
M. E. Khan
Department of Chemical Engineering Technology, College of Applied Industrial Technology
(CAIT), Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
R. S. Ji
Discipline of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
A. Mohammad
School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongbuk, South
Korea
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
S. Rajendran et al. (eds.), Metal, Metal-Oxides and Metal-Organic Frameworks for
Environmental Remediation, Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World 64,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68976-6_3
63